A Study On Carbon Nano Tube Based On Drug Delivery

Abstract:

According to WHO (Word Health Organization) in 2005, about 7.6 million people died of cancer
out of 58 million deaths worldwide. The traditional drug delivery system (e.g., radiation therapy,
chemotherapy, surgery etc) used in cancer treatment has many side effects. Sometimes it damages
normal cells near the area where therapy is used to kill cancer cell and become toxic when it crosses
the permissible limit. Recently the SWCNTs (Single Walled Carbon Nanotube) has gained much
attention for targeting drug delivery system because of its unique properties. In this case the
fictionalization of SWCNT is a key in developing SWCNT based drug delivery system. We studied
and found that surface area of armchair SWCNT is greater than that of zigzag SWCNT, and
armchair gives more sites for fictionalization than zigzag. For fictionalization more sites means more
or equal drug carrying and less use of SWCNT. As a result fewer side effects and less toxicity will
be occurred in the normal cell in SWCNT based drug delivery system.

Description:

This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh